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5 kx .TH RUN-PARTS 8 "14 Apr 2002" "Slackware Version 8.1.0
5 kx .SH NAME
5 kx run-parts \- run scripts found in a directory
5 kx .SH SYNOPSIS
5 kx .B run-parts <directory>
5 kx .LP
5 kx .SH DESCRIPTION
5 kx .B run-parts
5 kx is a utility that will run scripts that are found in a directory. For example,
5 kx it might be useful to create an /etc/cron.daily directory and put scripts in
5 kx there for daily cron jobs. Then
5 kx .B run-parts
5 kx can be called once a day from root's crontab to run all the scripts found in
5 kx /etc/cron.daily:
5 kx
5 kx 40 4 * * * run-parts /etc/cron.daily
5 kx
5 kx .B run-parts
5 kx automatically skips files with certain suffixes that are generally associated
5 kx with backup or extra files. Any file that ends in one of these will be silently
5 kx ignored: ~ ^ , .bak .new .rpmsave .rpmorig .rpmnew .swp
5 kx .SH AUTHOR
5 kx Patrick J. Volkerding <volkerdi@slackware.com>, with ideas borrowed from the
5 kx Red Hat and Debian versions of this utility.
5 kx .SH "SEE ALSO"
5 kx .BR crond(8),
5 kx .BR crontab(8).